کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
7496099 1485766 2014 34 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
The rubber plantation environment and Lassa fever epidemics in Liberia, 2008-2012: A spatial regression
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
محیط کشت پلاستیکی و اپیدمی لسا در لیبریا، 2008-2012: یک رگرسیون فضایی
کلمات کلیدی
تب لسا، ماستومیس، محیط کشت عامل خطر، اپیدمیولوژی فضایی،
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم پزشکی و سلامت پزشکی و دندانپزشکی سیاست های بهداشت و سلامت عمومی
چکیده انگلیسی
As Lassa fever continues to be a public health challenge in West Africa, it is critical to produce good maps of its risk pattern for use in active surveillance and control intervention. We identified eight spatial features related to the rubber plantation environment and used them as explanatory variables for Lassa fever (LF) outbreaks on the Uniroyal Liberian Agricultural Company (LAC) rubber plantation environment in Grand Bassa County, Liberia. We computed classical and spatial lag regression models on all spatial features, including proximity of residential camp to rubber tree-edge, main road in the plantation, LAC hospital, rice farmland, household refuse dump, human population density, post-harvest storage density of rice and density of rodent deterrent on rice storage. We found significant (p = 0.0024) spatial autocorrelation between LF cases and the spatial features we have considered. We concluded that the rubber plantation environment influenced Mastomys species' breeding and transmission of Lassa virus along spatial scale to humans. The risk factors identified in this study offered a baseline for more effective surveillance and control of LF in the post-civil conflict Liberia.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology - Volume 11, October 2014, Pages 163-174
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